Originally Posted by
Dee74 
The greatest factor in my returning to drinking so many time was my inability to deal with my problems and my fundamental reluctance to find real solutions for those problems.
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Ditto. My personal life was in a shambles: cheating husband, divorce, estrangement from family...and that's when then drinking started.
Now, it's usually some anxiety provoking conversation with my daughter (texting), or worrying about my grands. I just want the anxiety to go away.